Wheelbarrow



(No Model.)

M. V. GARVER.

WHEELBARROW.

Patented June 5, 1894.

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MARTIN V. GARVER, OF BRYAN, OHIO.

WHEELBARROW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 520,919, dated June 5, 1894.

a Application filed December 11, 1893- fiierial No. 493,325. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARTIN V. GARVEB, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bryan, Williams county, Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in IVheelbarrows, of which the following is a specification.

Heretofore manufacturers and shippers of wheelbarrows, and dealers in the same, have found the weight and bulk of wheelbarrowframes, in knock-down form, and the skill and labor required in assembling the parts thereof, a serious inconvenience, and many merchants are prevented from handling this kind of merchandise by the amount of storage room required, and the difficulties of putting the parts of the'wheelbarrows together.

My invention relates to and its object is to provide means for overcoming the objections above pointed out, and, more particularly, to furnish a light, strong, cheap, folding or collapsible wheelbarrow-frame which may be folded into asmall space, andwhich may, by an unskilled person, be readily expanded to its required form and attached to its tray and wheel, thus making a complete barrow. I attain these objects by means of the devices and arrangement of parts hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, made part hereof, in which-- Figure 1, is a perspective View of my barrow, (slightly tilted from the observer); Fig. 2, a perspective view of the folding legs and braces hereinafter referred to, detached, and Fig. 3, is an elevation of my folding frame detached from the barrow, the solid lines showing the frame partly expanded, and the dotted lines showing the same with the parts follded together, substantially'parallel to each oter.

Like figures of reference represent like parts throughout the several views.

1 is the tray, 2, 2, the handles, and 3 the wheel of my barrow attached to the handles or bars in any preferred manner. The remaining parts, hereinafter referred to, are preferably of flat bars of iron or steel, though these bars may be corrugated, tubular or of any other form, in cross-section, without departing from my invention. The legs 4, at their upper ends, are given a quarter turn, the parts above the twist being inclined to fit the front end of the tray to which they are suitably secured. The lower parts of the legs 4 are bent inwardly and upwardly with a U- shaped bend, the extremities being given a quarter twist toward each other, as shown in Fig. 2. In the recess formed by the returnbend, just referred to, rest and are pivoted the lower ends of side'braces 5, bolts 6 passing through the three thicknesses of metal at these points. The upper and'rearwardly extending ends of the side braces 5, are'given a quarter turn so that their flat sides may rest against and fit the rear end of the tray to which these ends are bolted or otherwise secured. It will be seen that the legs 4.

and side-braces 5 are arranged in substantially the same plane. Legs 4 are pierced for bolts, as at 7, and side-braces 5 are similarly pierced, as at 8, (see Figs. 1 and 2) and at these points the handles, 2, are respectively secured to the inner faces of the legs and side-braces, (see Fig. 1.) The legs, 4, are braced laterally against each other by means of X-bars 9, pivotally secured together at their middle, also secured pivotally by bolts at their lower ends to the inwardly projecting extremities of legs 4, as at 10, and secured to the inner sides of the handles by the same bolt that passes through hole 7. The handles 2 are braced against each other by means of cross-bars 11, jointed at their middle and pivotally secured at each end to the bottom side of the handles. (See Figs. 1 and 3.) These cross-bars may also serve as partial supports for the tray.

For convenience I have first described my barrow with its parts assembled and ready for use. If now the tray and wheel be removed, the frame alone will remain. To reduce this frame to its smallest compass it is merely necessary to remove the two bolts which unite the legs, X-braces and handles, at 7, when the handles, legs and side-braces may be brought together laterally, the pivoted braces 9 and 11 yielding and folding together as the handles approach each other; at the same time bolt 6 serves as a pivot or joint by means ofwhich the legs and X-brace 9, may be folded upon side-braces 5, and bolt 8 serves as a pivot or joint whereby the legs 4, X-brace 9 and side braces 5 may be folded against and substantially parallel with the handles and braces 11, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 3.

Having described my invention, what I claim,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. In awheelbarrow, the frame thereof having all its members pivotally connected, whereby the parts of said frame may be folded upon each other horizontally and vertically in substantially parallel lines, substantially as Shown and described, for the purpose speci- 2. In a Wheelbarrow, the legs having the side-braces and cross-braces (9,) pivotal] y connccted therewith, substantially as shown and described, for the purpose specified.

3. In a wheelbarrow, the legs having the 

